All of you know this because all of you are there except for poverty stricken Practice Source.
Although here at PS we can’t complain we did attend an IBA in India one year where I even got to shake the hand of the then Indian President. A far more preferable encounter than any poor sod who might have to come across a leading light in the Australian Liberal party this week.
Fortunately we aren’t one of the following dignitaries who might have that dubious honour.
By the way when will Townsville take Assange back. We do pity those Ecuadorians.
Among visiting dignitaries are Ukraine Minister of Justice Pavlo Petrenko, Scotland’s Advocate-General, Lord Richard Keen, QC, and UK House of Lords member Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC. Eminent Australian speakers include former prime minister John Howard, former High Court judges Mary Gaudron and Michael Kirby, former governor-general Quentin Bryce, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, federal Attorney-General George Brandis, NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman and new Australian Human Rights Commission president Ros Croucher. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will appear via videolink from his Ecuadorian embassy base in London.
